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Orchestras
Scientists say cellists have more stress than violinists
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Chicago names new maestro
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Yannick perfects the art of saying nothing
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Album Of The Week
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Opera
US opera appoints pop museum CEO
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Watch: Kaija Saariaho’s last work
Her trumpet concerto HUSH premiered in Helsinki last…
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Netrebko pulls out of tax shelter
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Ed Sheeran’s next album is based on Elgar’s Enigma
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RIP
US musicologist dies on tour
A pillar of the University of California-Santa Cruz…
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Bayreuth’s American hero is taking early retirement
The imposing American heldentenor Stephen Gould has announced…
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Sign of the times: Brandeis cancels music
Faculty members are spreading the word that Brandeis…
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Opera
Free opera tonight: Italy in Turkish migrant crisis
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Daily Comfort Zone
Dear Alma, I’m fed up with playing youth orchestra
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Ruth Leon…A personal farewell to the Emerson Quartet
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ARD Music Competition faces shortened future
Germany’s most influential competition is facing existential cuts…
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Exclusive: A singer steps out to cover Gardiner absence
At last night’s makeshift performance of Les Troyens…
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Just in: Sir John Eliot Gardiner, withdrawing, issues a public apology
His agents have circulated the following message: Sir…
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A message from the young singer who was hit by his conductor
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Confirmed: Sir John Eliot Gardiner drops out of BBC Proms
We understand from sources familiar with the conductor…
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